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around the world. Apart from metro project, TBM for
water diversion, sewage, cable tunnel, smart city,
mines etc. are also applied. The largest TBM using in interaction
India are also manufactured by CRCHI and it is served
for Mumbai Coastal Road Project.

Could you brief us on your range of product or
solutions and their applications in the metro rail
space?
CRCHI is now a comprehensive solution provider
for the underground construction and rail transit
industries. The main products include TBM (tunnel
boring machine), Shaft-boring machine, Drilling
Jumbo, Concrete Shotcrete Machine, Tunnel Vehicle
for Lifting and Installation Work, Railway Turnout, Clip
and Fastener, etc. Furthermore, CRCHI offers full
life cycle services tailored to client’s needs, which
cover design, fabrication, training, on-site service,
refurbishment, spare parts supply, etc.
experience and techniques for its fast development. Moreover,
Any new products introduced in the market – and how have they CRCHI has excellent production facilities, such as modernized
been received? Tell us about the geographies/projects in which workshops, large machining center, advanced testing center
they are being targeted? and laboratory, smart logistic system, automated production lines
As the world second biggest supplier for railway maintenance and other manufacturing facilities. CRCHI always develop the
equipment, CRCHI supplied more than `80 crore railway products which will fill the blank in the market such as intelligent
equipment to the railway department of India. It is also a huge nATM machine, which reduced a lot of potential risk for the
demand in India in further because of HSR and more and more workman.
railway upgradation. Apart from that, India is world top second
cotton plant country, a new machine called Automatic Cotton What are the opportunities you are seeking in the metro space
Picker which efficiency is same as 500 labour will be introduced going forward? Tell us of the metro projects in which you are
by CRCHI to Indian Market. This machine will really help the looking to contribute?
farmers to enhance the harvest of cotton due to short plucking Right now there are a lot of opportunities for us in India as a lot of
time. metro projects are there in pipe line. e.g. Delhi Metro, Agra Metro,
Kanpur Metro, Patna metro, Chennai metro etc. All together there
is a requirement of more than 40 Tunnel Boring machines and we
are expecting good number out of this.

Provide us a brief idea of the existing market opportunities and
your strategy to tap those going forward?
India is a growing sector for metro rail, bullet train and road
projects. Every tier-I and Tier-II cities are now planning to go for
the metro. To support our clients and to provide the best after
sales service, we have already acquired 2 acres of land with our
distributor M/s Friends Equipment and have already opened a
ware house and going to start the TBM refurbishment factory in
Patal Ganga Industrial area near navi Mumbai. This will help us to
provide the better aftersales service and immediate support to
our clients and the project. We are also providing the spare parts
As a company, give us a sense of the emphasis you place on ware house at each Project sites along with our service team to
r&D and innovation? Provide the USP’s of your offerings? provide 24x7 availability of spare parts and service.
As an innovation-oriented enterprise, CRCHI puts 5% of its
annual revenues into research and development. It has more Future outlook for the metro rail industry and from a company
than 1600 engineers and researchers to explore new cutting- perspective.
edge technologies and construction methods which guarantee The Govt of India is giving a big push for metro rail all over India
company’s technical competitiveness. Having maintained good and we see huge opportunities in the metro rail sector. As a major
relationships with world’s famous tunneling and engineering player in this industry we feel proud to be associated with path
construction contractors, CRCHI acquires their construction breaking projects.

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